I have been thinking about POWs and forced laborers lately. My article on digital memory of World War II came out with Memory Studies and in it I analyzed projects like the Russian governments OBD-Memorial, a huge database of Soviet soldiers who died in the war. I’ve also been working on a project on the […]
The University of Padua is hosting a conference on December 10, 2015. The conference will address the issue of digital literacy by focussing on three main areas: (1) Policies that promote the development of these skills; (2) Research on the necessary skills for efficiently engaging in digital environments in an informed manner; (3) Experiences and […]
The School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication (WRTC) at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to begin August 2016. We seek a colleague who specializes in digital media theory and practice, with a PhD (in hand by August 2016) in Technical and Professional Communication, Rhetoric and Composition or a related field. Read […]
Over 12,000 grant records dating from NEH’s first grant in 1966 (to the American Society of Papryologists) through 1979 are now available, making the full run of NEH’s grant-making history complete and publicly accessible. Read full post here.
In coordination with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and specialists at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in addition to bepress, we have established the Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD). Read full post here.
I was excited to be invited to participate in a panel discussion on Data Management and Curation in 21st Century Archives at SAA, given my perspective is not that of an archivist. I’ve been studying data reuse in academic communities and more recently I’ve been examining libraries’ role in e-research and data on their campuses. Given […]
Walt Disney Studios is looking for a digital archivist to build, organize and maintain the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s digital production archive. Read the full posting here.
LITA is offering an online course on Personal Digital Archiving. Registration closes October 6th. Read the full post here.
Antony Groves has published a short guide on using Vine to disseminate library information. Read the full post here.
Benjamin White lectures on the question of “Are digital laws making or breaking libraries?” Watch the full thing here.
